Carnegie Mellon wins DARPA Urban Challenge

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My alma mater, CMU, won the DARPA city challenge in which they had to build — and successfully deploy — an autonomous vehicle in a simulated city environment. Sure, any schlub can send a robot car across the desert. But can you send it through the mean streets of Scranton, PA or a simulation thereof? Didn’t think so.

The Register has coverage of the entire event, but here’s to CMU for building a car that could finish a 60 mile course without veering off into the surrounding scrublands and becoming sentient, eventually killing the population of Flagstaff, Arizona before being destroyed by Special Forces.

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OverviewThe Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency was created with a national sense of urgency in February 1958 amidst one of the most dramatic moments in the history of the Cold War and the already-accelerating pace of technology.
In the months preceding the official authorization for the agency's creation, Department of Defense Directive Number 5105.15, the Soviet Union had launched an Intercontinental …